BILL KURTIS: From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is WAIT WAIT... DON'T TELL ME, the NPR news quiz. I'm Bill Kurtis. We are playing this week with Peter Grosz, Amy Dickinson and Mo Rocca. And here again is your host at the Providence Performing Arts Center in Providence, R.I., Peter Segal.
PETER SAGAL, HOST:
Thank you, Bill. Thank you, everybody.
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SAGAL: In just a minute, Bill presents the governor of the Listener Limerick Challenge Gina Rhymeondo (ph).
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SAGAL: If you'd like to play, give us a call at 1-888-WAIT-WAIT - that's 1-888-924-8924. Right now panel, some more questions for you from the week's news. Peter, first - well, you live there; you know this. Rich New Yorkers demand a doorman. Then they wanted high-end fitness centers and special side entrances in their buildings for the poors.
PETER GROSZ: Yes.
SAGAL: Now the latest trend among the city's upper crust is new apartment bombings that include luxury what?
GROSZ: Luxury in-house Russian mail-order bride agencies.
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GROSZ: No, in-house - is it, like, culinary? Is it lifestyle?
SAGAL: It's lifestyle.
GROSZ: It's lifestyle.
SAGAL: It's lifestyle, especially for parents.
GROSZ: Oh, like, in-house nannies?
SAGAL: No.
GROSZ: Oh - oh my gosh, in-house, like, wet nurses?
SAGAL: No.
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GROSZ: OK, for the record, Mo made, like, a wet nursing, like, motion...
AMY DICKINSON: (Unintelligible)...
GROSZ: ...I thought he knew what it was.
DICKINSON: He was pumping.
SAGAL: It's for parents, but it's not nannies...
GROSZ: All right, but it's not nannies...
It's got, like, swings from Louis Vuitton. It's got sand imported from...
GROSZ: Oh, designer playgrounds?
SAGAL: Yes, luxury playrooms...
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SAGAL: ...Is the latest thing. According to The New York Times, America's most trusted source for stories that make you fly into a blind rage...
GROSZ: Seriously.
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SAGAL: ...Elite Manhattanites are spending millions of dollars to outfit their buildings with designer playrooms for kids. Your proud - your apartment building is like an old elliptical machine in the basement. One of these New York playrooms has an actual flowing river and a talking giraffe.
GROSZ: A talking giraffe - the one thing giraffes cannot do...
SAGAL: Yeah, well, it's the play room.
GROSZ: Yes, exactly.
SAGAL: The rooms are typically centered around themes like under the sea, a day in the forest, the Panama Papers.
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GROSZ: Unrealistic expectations.
SAGAL: Yeah.
MO ROCCA: I just wanted to point - by the way, a - giraffes can't cough, which isn't...
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ROCCA: I used to...
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ROCCA: I used to do a show on Animal Planet, so I had to learn all these animal factoids.
SAGAL: Right.
ROCCA: And it always struck me as kind of ironic that a giraffe had such a long neck and it can't even cough.
SAGAL: How - if a giraffe can't cough, how does it subtly indicate its presence in the room then?
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SAGAL: Seriously, it's a problem because...
GROSZ: Yeah.
SAGAL: ...You're busy...
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SAGAL: ...Giraffe has come in, waiting to catch your attention, doesn't want to be rude.
ROCCA: It probably nuzzles you...
SAGAL: Yeah, you think?
ROCCA: It, like, sort of leans down...
GROSZ: It just lifts its hoof through its mouth and no sound comes out.
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ROCCA: Which is actually very polite, so they'd be very good on radio.
SAGAL: Yeah.
GROSZ: Very passive-aggressive, giraffes.
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SAGAL: Mo...
DICKINSON: I still vote for the nursing room.
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ROCCA: It would be - yeah, wet nurses should be everywhere.
DICKINSON: Wet nurses should be everywhere...
SAGAL: I'm just imagining - I'm imagining a nursing room and there's a talking giraffe, and the giraffes like look, I'm a mammal, too. But seriously, do I have to see that?
GROSZ: Yeah.
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GROSZ: (Imitating character) Your parents don't love you.
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GROSZ: (Imitating character) There you go. Let me tell you about a man named Karl Marx.
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GROSZ: (Imitating character) We get all the kids in this building to rise up, we could take over.
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